Coolio

Originally Posted by Techbot_Alpha_EU

Ah, good point.
I hope so =]

Originally Posted by Niviene

Cute cute cute! Love Pepsiman in this batch and the little fairy. Will have to keep watch on this thread and when your que isn't so full slip my request in for one of these.

Originally Posted by Coolio

I could suggest an ulterior solution...
Merge the test servers!
Our sub's are paid for live, access to test is an added bonus.
Merging the test servers would allow both sides of the EU/NA split, access to the same testing environment.
Test's @Globals are not required to be identical to the live ones either...
That way we could have access to 1 or 2 test servers...
Depending on devs requirements...

Originally Posted by GrinningSpade

Thank you and your buddies from Echo for organizing these games.

Originally Posted by Eldagore

I had a set hashed out on the old forums, I think it is deleted now. it was similar to the OP, minus a few powers. Important to note that anything resembling the current AR set should be thrown out, we dont need two cone heavy aoe gun sets. I had something like this- powers with stars I will describe below:

1. Pulse Rifle Burst (like the MM set blast)
2. Pulse Rifle Blast (as above)
3. Photon Grenade (as above)
4. Aim
5. Snipe
6. Pulse Rifle Barrage*
7. Concussive Blast*
8. Charged Pulse Blast*
9. Plasma Pack Detonation*

Ok, so the first 3 are available from the MM set, animations and all. Aim is Aim, Snipe could borrow the AR animation in part, but with different blast effects. That brings us to new ones:
Pulse Rifle Barrage: This would be the tier 3 blast, shorter range, but not just a single heavy blast, it would be 2 or 3 blasts in rapid succession. This could even just be a modification of the animation of the MM powers, modded for the additional blasts. it would be classified DoT, but it would only be 2 or 3 tics of dmg. Why its good- tier 3 blast is missing on AR so it differentiates this set, and of course the obligatory Pew Pew from multi blast. Multiple smaller blasts could be animated thematically faster then a "charged up" blast also.

Concussive Blast: Ranged(short range) Knockback power. Should animate relatively quickly, short range for defense uses. AR has stun, so we want to avoid that. ST knockback is a powerful soft mitigation tool, and we are working with energy blasts, so knockback or stun are on the menu, and one is already used in a gun set.

Charged Pulse Blast: This power would not resemble anything we have as a blast yet. It would be like a ranged Thunderstrike. A heavy charged blast, with a medium length animation as the rifle charges, then a heavy blast to a single target. This target takes the brunt of the damage, but the blast is so hard, there is splash damage to any foe in the targets immediate area. If you have ever played /elec for blasters or for a brute, imagine thunderstrike, but from 40 feet away. I would remove the knockback that thunderstrike has, because the mitigation should be dropped due to using it at range to keep balance.

Plasma Pack Detonation: Player removes Pulse Rifle Plasma ammo clip, pushes a button on pack, lobs pack like a grenade into the mob for a magnificent explosion with extreme energy/smash damage and high mag Knockback. No crash on endurance or anything for this power, but an "only affecting self" cool down instead. maybe 5 seconds or so. You just threw your ammo clip, you need to reload now. No endo crash, because why would there be- its a gun set. but you also cant just keep shooting, because you dont have an ammo pack. So here we would have a "sort of" crashless nuke, with nova type damage. The only affecting self fits thematically. Nova has a mass endo drain crash, fits because you just expended all your stores to nova. On the plus side, you can use a blue inspiration etc to keep going afterwards. With only affecting self, you can not "bypass" the crash, but you also get to keep your endo, so its a trade off that way.

This rifle set would give players that pew pew, without being a laser version of assault rifle. I cant stress this enough, it needs to be quite different so players dont call it "AR 2" or "the other AR". It offers new mechanics, and a wholly different play feel then any blast set we have now. Overall, the set is very ST oriented,(one cone, the other targeted aoe is heavily stacked on the one target with only minor splash dmg going to the rest) and should allow for fast-ish animation times to keep overall damage output on par with more aoe centric sets. Faster animations would also allow for more pew pew.

Plus, think how awsome this would look with I16 with players able to color the laser blasts any way they want. I vote: put this in for I17.

Anyway, thats my take on this. I have wanted a set like this since like I3. Pew Pew after all.

Originally Posted by Socorro

Ditto...in reverse

I know some of you make the Forms into awesome-sauce, but I just can't get them. Maybe if I get different form-looks, or not have to use binds to maximize them, or they'd combine redundant powers (ex: Bright Nova Blast and Luminouis Blast should share slotting) then I'd be more game

Originally Posted by dreamweaver_EU

Hehe. It's baaack.

On a related note, does anyone know what I'm doing that's causing BAD INPUT errors?